This affects the mechanical strength of the collagen gel, making the gel much stiffer and brittle with an increase in the swelling ratio, as compared with that prepared in MES buffer.
A. Time is anything but kind to newspapers, which become more faded, yellow and brittle with each passing month.
Some chemicals used in preparing wood pulp resulted in what paper conservators call "self-destructing paper," which turned brown and brittle with age.
He got up, went eagerly to the files piled nearly to the ceiling of his apartment and pulled out photographs, reviews and articles yellowed and brittle with age.
Try not to use curling irons or flat irons too often because it makes your hair dry and brittle with split ends.
Analysis of fracture surface showed that the 316L fractured in mixed mode, ductile and brittle fracture, with an elongation of 18% at 800 °C.
Will eventually falls in love with Jack's close friend Alexandra, a New York heiress and beauty, tall and lean, "just a bit brittle," with "a long, slender neck" and "marsupial ears".
P3HB has high E and σt, but is brittle, with a small εb.
At San Francisco's Baker & Banker, chefs Jeff Banker and Lori Baker serve sesame brittle with a new salad that incorporates avocado, farmers' cheese, sprouts, greens and Banyuls vinaigrette.
It is soft to brittle, with a specific gravity of about 0.95 and a melting point of more than 140° F (60° C), and it consists mainly of free cerotic acid and myricin (myricyl palmitate), with some high-carbon paraffins.
